2,914 Quotes About Memory

How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?

Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.

Men were often far different in their roles as fathers than they were as suitors, the memories of which kept them, out of necessity, both vigilant and violent, and even in tender moments, to their daughters.

We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.

The flip side of an experience of enjoyment is the certainty that it won't last forever, Today's moment of hygge will be tomorrow's memory. With that awareness, we give ourselves over to the moment more completely.

Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the storying of the present. -Lynda Sexson

Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away.

My brain tends to take the scenic route. Things come to the forefront of my mind sooner or later, it just takes time.

Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no mere photographs, but the world of an artist.